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- From: behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)
- Subject: Re: Ramfast and Tape Backup units..
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- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:33:01 GMT
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- kimba@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Kim Brennan) writes:
- [About accessing the tape drive from outside the RF utilities]
-
- >Like Todd, I'm at a loss as to understanding what you want to do. For backing
- >up you would/should use the RamFAST utility as that is what it is designed
- >for. I would suspect that Drew intentionally makes the tape write protected
- >outside of the utility program so as to avoid complaints from users who would
- >find a tape drive incredibly slow for random access writing to.
-
- Well, believe it or not, but
-
- a) the RF's backup-mechanism is not what all people want (I'd rather have
- dump/restor , for example)
- b) tape units can be used for other things than backing up some MB of data.
- I'd like to use it for exchanging data with friends in tar format.
- Of course, I can't, because I cannot write to the tape. *Sigh*
-
- Soenke
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